Entry in online diary: Thank you for saving my husband's life

Alan is continuing to make excellent progress. For most of last week he was terribly confused and it was thought he’d sustained brain damage due to being on the heart/lung bypass machine.

Today was a huge turning point – he’s no longer confused and has almost returned to his normal self. From what I’ve been told there is no damage to his brain – unless he doesn’t get the use of his right arm and leg back totally, but even they are making vast improvements every day and very soon he will be back on his feet and off on walk­abouts around the hospital corridors! His memory is improving and he is becoming more alert every day.

I just know he is going to be fine; he’s rec­overing pretty quickly now. At this rate, he will be out of hospital in a few weeks’ time and we will be able to get on with our lives, although I’m sure he will be ‘tied’ to the hospital for a while afterwards. A small price to pay for Mr Bonser giving him his life back.

All of this is beyond our wildest dreams. When he comes out of hospital he won’t have the threat of this aneurysm hanging over him – I can’t imagine how that will make him feel – FREE I suspect! I know how it makes me feel – totally relieved! Mr Bonser said that he’s fixed Alan’s aorta and if anything else should happen then he can fix it internally without having to open him up again.

He also transplanted a new artery into Alan’s kidney to make it work better – he hasn’t even been on dialysis! Once he’s recovered he will be in better shape than he was four years ago. He has certainly come through the worst of it now and the light at the end of the tunnel is shining for us.

Mr Bonser came to see Alan tonight and is very pleased with his progress. I took the opportunity to thank him in person for saving my husband’s life … to which he replied, ‘It’s my pleasure.’

It would seem this horror story is going to have a happy ending! Thank you all for staying with us through this and making your prayers heard.

Professor Robert Stuart Bonser

NHS Death Row versus The Priory Hospital: Professor 'God' Bonser :)

This blog is a HUGE "Thank You" to Professor Robert Stuart Bonser - of the Priory Hospital in Birmingham - for saving my husbands' life, after he had been deliberately misdiagnosed as inoperable and terminally ill by a Professor with a Knighthood who was working for the NHS.

Cure the NHS campaign group

Dead patients don't cost the NHS a thing

How many women need to stand up to Britain’s cash-strapped National Health Service and strip its policies bare to reveal a strange, ingrown corruption that declares some patients inoperable, and sends them home to die, in order to balance their books and reduce waiting lists?The dual culprits in my husbands' potential demise were a nastily burgeoning aneurysm on his aorta, and a National Health Service so good at hiding life-saving information, even from itself, that it could spend as much to kill him as to save him. When a doctor can save a life, he is supposed to do it, but some keep silent about expensive treatment. Dead patients don't cost the NHS a thing.This could happen to any one of us.When you are given a prognosis with no hope, please don’t stop there. The worldwide web is very useful to help research anything and everything that might apply to your illness. My own research found life-saving information in the USA, The Netherlands, Germany and Norway. But what I really needed was right here in the UK - the NHS just didn't want me to know about it. This story has been featured in Take a Break magazine in the UK.

Sir Professor Peter Bell

The knighted professor at Leicester Royal Infirmary who diagnosed my husband inoperable to save money for the NHS and to meet Government targets. He didn't have the relevant expertise himself but failed to use NHS guidelines to refer my husband to Professor Bonser, until 14 months later, despite knowing of his expertise. click on picture to view email.

University Hospitals Leicester

Cardiologists lead the way in the task of deciding which patients should receive certain expensive diagnostic tests and which should not